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Definition of seventeenth in English: seventeenthordinal number ˌsɛvnˈtiːnθ 1Constituting number seventeen in a sequence; 17th. Example sentencesExamples - In the seventeenth century, a milkmaid would send a stream of new, warm milk directly from a cow into a bowl of spiced cider or ale.
- The stained glass, which is mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was reset in 1912.
- I congratulate you on the seventeenth anniversary of our dear Marie.
- The seventeenth annual seminar on mineral photography will be held on Thursday.
- Through the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scholars argued relentlessly about the details of Egyptian and Chinese chronology.
- She finished seventeenth at the world championships in Switzerland.
- It could be a party to celebrate your seventeenth birthday, a new year, a new you.
- County government was in the hands of 3,000 or so prominent gentry in the early seventeenth century.
- Forced to submit to a vote of the people under the newly enacted seventeenth amendment, Henry's forces were noted for "stuffing ballot boxes, shipping repeats, and intimidating voters".
- She sits down at the table next to the window, sips the juice as the steaming coffee cools, gazing out from the seventeenth floor.
2Each of seventeen equal parts into which something is or may be divided. the bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value Example sentencesExamples - An annual allowance of one seventeenth of the expenditure is given for capital expenditure on patent rights.
- Japan's private-equity market is one seventeenth of the size of the sector in the US.
- The friction force is about a seventeenth of the ball's weight.
- He sold it for about a seventeenth of its value.
- He was to have the inducement of sharing a seventeenth of the profits.
- A third of the population was trying to live in a way that only a seventeenth of the population could live.
- The bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value.
- This uses either small roof or loft space antenna and less than one seventeenth the power of a mobile phone.
Rhymeseighteenth, fifteenth, fourteenth, nineteenth, sixteenth, thirteenth, umpteenth Definition of seventeenth in US English: seventeenthordinal number 1Constituting number seventeen in a sequence; 17th. Example sentencesExamples - She finished seventeenth at the world championships in Switzerland.
- Through the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scholars argued relentlessly about the details of Egyptian and Chinese chronology.
- She sits down at the table next to the window, sips the juice as the steaming coffee cools, gazing out from the seventeenth floor.
- The stained glass, which is mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was reset in 1912.
- Forced to submit to a vote of the people under the newly enacted seventeenth amendment, Henry's forces were noted for "stuffing ballot boxes, shipping repeats, and intimidating voters".
- It could be a party to celebrate your seventeenth birthday, a new year, a new you.
- The seventeenth annual seminar on mineral photography will be held on Thursday.
- I congratulate you on the seventeenth anniversary of our dear Marie.
- County government was in the hands of 3,000 or so prominent gentry in the early seventeenth century.
- In the seventeenth century, a milkmaid would send a stream of new, warm milk directly from a cow into a bowl of spiced cider or ale.
2Each of seventeen equal parts into which something is or may be divided. the bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value Example sentencesExamples - The bank was sold for about a seventeenth of its value.
- Japan's private-equity market is one seventeenth of the size of the sector in the US.
- A third of the population was trying to live in a way that only a seventeenth of the population could live.
- He was to have the inducement of sharing a seventeenth of the profits.
- He sold it for about a seventeenth of its value.
- This uses either small roof or loft space antenna and less than one seventeenth the power of a mobile phone.
- The friction force is about a seventeenth of the ball's weight.
- An annual allowance of one seventeenth of the expenditure is given for capital expenditure on patent rights.
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